Peidong Yang named 2011 MRS Medalist for nanowire research
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of Chemical Physics in 1984. He is currently an IBM Fellow and manager of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has also been an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Avouris is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Athens, as well as a senior member of IEEE and a fellow of the American Physical Society, the U.K. Institute of Physics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Vacuum Society, the New York Academy of Science, and the
Peidong Yang named 2011 MRS Medalist for nanowire research
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he Materials Research Society has named Peidong Yang of the University of California–Berkeley and founder of Alphabet Energy, Inc., as MRS Medalist. He was cited for “outstanding contributions in the creative synthesis and assembly of semiconductor nanowires and their heterostructures, and innovations in nanowire-based photonics, thermoelectrics, solar energy conversion and nanofluidic applications.” Yang will be recognized during the awards ceremony at the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, where he will also give an award talk on “Semiconductor nanowires for solar energy conversion.” Yang will give his presentation on Wednesday, November 30 at 12:15 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel. Yang, an MRS fellow and former recipient of the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award, has contributed
broad-ranging breakthroughs to nanoscience and nanotechnology. He developed new and general approaches for the synthesis of metal oxide and semiconductor nanowires which opened significant opportunities for fundamental studies of the optical and electronic properties of quantum-confined and periodic systems, and applications of these materials for nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. His seminal optical studies of zinc oxide nanowires mark the discovery and demonstration of the first nanoscale laser in which the nanowire itself defines the optical cavity. In the area of nanophotonics, Yang recently made seminal contributions to renewable energy through his studies of a nanowire-enabled dye-sensitized solar cell and a core–shell nanowire solar cell. By introducing the novel idea of a nanowire-based solar cell, Yang has
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World Technology Network. His honors include the Irving Langmuir Prize for Chemical Physics (American Physical Society), the Medard W. Welch Award (American Vacuum Society), the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, the Richard Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology (Foresight Institute), the Richard E. Smalley Prize (Electrochemical Society), the Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics, the AVS Nanotechnology Research Award, the IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Award, and many IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards.
demonstrated an ideal platform to independently study and optimize light absorption, charge separation, and charge collection. More recently, his group has been exploring the possibility of using the high-surface-area nanowire arrays as photoelectrodes for the purpose of artificial
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